Jayson Thiessen

Jayson Thiessen is a Canadian animation director, most famous for being the supervising director and executive producer of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and its spin-off films Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks.[2] He also directed the 2017 film adaptation based directly on the television series.[3][4]

Jayson Thiessen
Jayson Thiessen at Animation On Display 2012 in San Francisco, California
Born (1976-12-30) December 30, 1976[1]
NationalityCanadian
OccupationDirector
Animator
Producer
Screenwriter
Known forPucca (season 2)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
My Little Pony: The Movie

Prior to working on My Little Pony, he worked on season 2 of the Pucca television series aired on Jetix (now Disney XD). Recently he directed eight episodes of Cleopatra in Space, an animated series which premiered on DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia in late November 2019 and will be part of the offerings of the NBC streaming service Peacock in April 2020.[5]


References
  1. Behind the Voice Actors
  2. Turner, James (20 March 2012). "Is TV paying too much attention to fans?". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  3. McNary, Dave (12 February 2016). "Emily Blunt Joins 'My Little Pony' Movie". Variety. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. Martin, Annie (19 November 2015). "'My Little Pony' movie set for release in 2017". UPI. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  5. Thiessen's LinkedIn page notes that he was an episodic director for Cleopatra in Space at Titmouse, employed for about a year, from March 2018 to March 2019.


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